Hi Maxime,

Thanks for you reply, it helped a lot!

What I was looking for was to return either c4d.CMD_ENABLED|c4d.CMD_VALUE when the plugin is on and c4d.CMD_ENABLED when off, and I found a way thanks to your link.

Thanks again, I will try to search deeper before asking next time, but this really makes me want to crave into Python deeper.

Cheers

Hi Shallow_Red, first of all, welcome in the plugin cafe community!

As Andreas explain in his previous post you have to useGetState to define your behavior.
Here is a quick plugin example which toggles the icon if there is an object selected or not.

import c4d
  
# Be sure to use a unique ID obtained from www.plugincafe.com
PLUGIN_ID = 1000001
  
class MyCommandDataPlugin(c4d.plugins.CommandData) :
  
    def Execute(self, doc) :
        print 'Execute'
        return True
  
    def GetState(self, doc) :
        # If we get an object selected we can click on the Icon
        if doc.GetActiveObject() :
            return c4d.CMD_ENABLED
        else:
            return False
  
  
if __name__ == "__main__":
    plugins.RegisterCommandPlugin(id=PLUGIN_ID, str="MyCommandDataPlugin",
                                  help="PMyCommandDataPlugin", info=0,
                                  dat=MyCommandDataPlugin(), icon=None)

If you have any questions please, let me know
Cheers,
Maxime!

Hey Motion4D did you succeed?

I am also trying to set a highlight toggle for a python script icon based on it's state... I managed to convert it into a plugin but can't go any further... I found a few similar topics through the web but no real solution...

If you have found a way I'd be glad to know it

Cheers

Perfect! Thanks for the help Andreas

Hi,

no, currently there's no way to accomplish this for a script. But you can quite easily convert your script into a CommandData plugin, where you can then use the GetState() function. While the conversion from a script to a CommandData is actually simple (basically the script code just goes into Execute()), you may also consider using the Script Converter from Niklas Rosenstein's quick prototyping toolset, featured on our blog[URL-REMOVED] a while ago.

And now, that Cinema 4D R20 got announced, I can also say, that with R20 Python scripts in Script Manager will also get the ability to set the menu state.

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